Questions tagged [file-management]
Organization and manipulation of files
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Using Photoshop Organizer with Amazon Prime Photos
I’ve read Amazon’s Prime Photo service advertised as an unlimited photo storage service. They allow you to save RAW files, which addresses the shortfall of many other online storage services.
Has ...
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Should I tag, sort in folders, or rename my images for organizing them? [closed]
I have tons of images across my physical drives and unfortunately because I was inexperienced, I have saved them using a very poor method of file management (which is making lots and lots of ...
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Why is my external drive missing from Picasa?
I have an external USB drive plugged in, but Picasa is not displaying that drive in "Folder Manager", and as such I'm unable to scan and view the photos on that drive.
Is there anything I can do to ...
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Manufacturer DCIM folder format
I'm pretty sure I used to have a camera that would create a different folder each day (I think it used the day-of-the-year as the three digit code), which I think is a great idea, but can't remember ...
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How do I name images by barcode as I am photographing? [duplicate]
I need to create a system whereby I can scan a barcode and every picture taken after that code is scanned is sequentially named with that barcode and then when the next barcode is scanned, the images ...
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Verifying the integrity of your library
After reorganizing my image collection I moved a bunch of photos between different hard drives. While copying, I did get error messages. Fortunately, I had made multiple copies before doing the ...
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Lightroom 6 - suggestions on how organize pictures [closed]
I'm using Lightroom mostly to organize pictures. Mainly they are so divided into Lightroom (and so on disk):
Root Folder
2014
Event01
Event02
2015
Event01
Event02
2016
Event01
(...)
Until here ...
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How can I tag my images online?
I have hundreds of gigabytes of family photos on my hard disk at home.
What software will allow me to not only browse those online wherever I am, but most critically allow easy tagging via a web ...
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How did Lightroom automatically find location of files after moving to a different partition?
I moved my photos and Lightroom catalog files to a different partition on my hard drive and then opened Lightroom expecting to have point Lightroom to the new location of the image files and catalog.
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What do the buttons do in digikam's face recognition UI?
A while back, there was a question on digikam's mailing list that unfortunately never got answered. I'd like to ask that question here.
Paraphrasing, I'd like to know what happens when, after running ...
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How do I delete from the disk pictures I deleted in a folder in Lightroom CC?
I imported photos into a Lightroom CC folder and deleted a lot of them, but only from the catalogue not from the disk.
Is there a way to delete them from the disk, too, or do I need to sync the ...
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How to format a 4TB hard disk for photography files?
I just bought a new 4 TB hard disk for my photographies and I would like to prepare it to copy all my photos there. This hard disk will ONLY consist of photo file (CanonRAW *.cr2; >20MB each file) (...
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Why does my Pentax Optio E30 create a new folder and reset numbering each time I turn it on?
I have Pentax Optio E30 for 8 years. After counting to 9999 it started to act weird. While before it saved images in numeric order into one "100pentx" folder, now it creates a new folder every time I ...
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Attach camera via USB, or remove the cards from the camera? [duplicate]
I've always removed the cards from the cameras and used a high-speed good quality card reader, and find it totally strange to connect the camera via USB instead. A comment elsewhere prompted me to ...
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Should I bother organising into file system folders in Lightroom or just use metadata?
A while back I was following this method for Lightroom http://ericscouten.com/blog/2012/03/05/lightroom-technique-how-i-organize-my-catalog-and-why-2012-edition
It does advocate creating folders on ...
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Bookmarking common places in Lightroom?
The Lightroom catalog shows my entire collection, as a tree of directories. If I move from one project to another, I have to navigate the tree. Then, I have to navigate back.
Can I set some kind of ...
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How to rapidly select image subsets from a large collection?
I have several thousand images in a folder on my windows machine. I want to browse through them all and select for printing a subset of these - I reckon around 20% or about 400.
Selecting means ...
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Is there any way in Lightroom to sort photos from multiple days based on time of the day?
I have a folder with holidays photos (7 days).
I would like to make a collection witch would sort these photos based on time of the day, without considering the day.
For example, all pictures taken ...
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Looking for an application that will provide image matches on local machine [duplicate]
I've found a bunch of programs that will spit out a list of duplicate images. In other words, you click "Go" and it looks at everything on a drive, or in a folder, and tells you if there are any ...
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How can I change the image counter on my Canon Sx240?
I use one monthly folder. My image counter was about 2300 (after a full loop... when will they use 5 digits?). When inserting my SD card to another Canon and back to mine, the image counter is now ...
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How can I delete originals in Capture One from within an album (without going back to "all photos")?
In Capture One if you want to organize your photos inside of a catalog you have to use albums. But if you want to delete an image and you are viewing it in an album the image is only deleted from the ...
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What are some common uses for stacking in Lightroom?
In what situations does it work well? Or not work well? How do you use it to organise your photos?
In what situations does "Auto-stack by capture time" work well?
Note that I'm not talking about ...
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How to store photos for long term locally?
TL;DR: I am amateur photographer and looking for advice on storing my photographs locally (not on cloud/online) for long-term.
Background
I started clicking photos in .JPG initially but realized it's ...
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How can I organise collections by date in Lightroom?
I often go walking with my camera and I like to collect the photos from each walk into a collection. I name the collection after the place I've walked, and it ultimately contains any photos I took, ...
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Cross-Platform Photo Management Workflow - from Smart-Phone/PC to Storage to Print
I am looking for a simple photography workflow. I want as much automation as possible to handle synchronization, organization, editing, and printing.
I am willing to put in more work upfront so ...
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Moving from Light Room to Capture One/Media Pro or alternative
I've used Lightroom (LR) for the past year and I love that tool. However, I've recently looked into alternatives and the output of Capture One (CO) looks better than LR, at least for me.
I wanted to ...
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How can I sort pictures in a folder based on similarity? [duplicate]
I have many duplicate photos in a folder. How can I sort the pictures in a folder by similarity? i.e., sorting not based on the file name or date, but based on similarity of image?
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How can I show the oldest and newest image with ExifTool in Windows?
Is there any way to show the name of the oldest and the newest image in the current folder with ExifTool, based on the shooting date?
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What system should I use for photo management and sharing over the Internet? [closed]
This question has been asked before, but the answers are 3+ years old and nearly all of the projects referenced are gone!
Basically, I want something that does everything Picasa (the Windows client ...
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How can I reduce the storage space for unprocessed timelapses?
I have many JPEGs captured as part of different timelapses. I have all of them stored as they came from the camera, but it is starting to take up a lot of space.
I want to keep the photos at their ...
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